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Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

that's great Lon! there is nothing more frustrating than when the ol computer packs up and you lose a lot of your stuff that you have worked hard on. damn things! hope you manage to recover a lot of stuff and that you get those creative juices flowing. get those scripts done and find some success. you are a good man and deserve good things! i look up to you ( proberly because you're taller than me)

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

azathoth wrote:

ChainSaW80 wrote:

My aunt gave me 6 boxes of old records!!! At least 3 of the boxes are all box sets, mostly old country like hank Williams, merle haggard, johnny cash amoung others.

Oh snap, that is some fine shnizzle! My parents have tons of records, and a couple of years ago I bought my dad a hi-end player: I now it's stupid but I swear the tone on those things are better than CDs.

Not stupid to me...the first time i listened to Janis Joplin's Pearl album on vinyl it brought a tear of joy to my eyeball.

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

Just got back from Blackpool, my first holiday (only for two days) in about 4 years. It was awesome, too bad the weather sucked but I got to see my first gorilla, shark, stingray, octopus and got to touch a starfish. Narrowly escaped the riots in London when I found out on the news, went to a Ripley's Believe or Not! museum which was pretty bad-ass and lost about £10 in the arcade, won it back again then lost it. What the heck, although I could do with that £10 about now. Haha. Although it was a good few days, spent 24 hours on the road so my ass is freaking numb but I seen a freaking gorilla which is awesome to me.

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

azathoth wrote:

ChainSaW80 wrote:

My aunt gave me 6 boxes of old records!!! At least 3 of the boxes are all box sets, mostly old country like hank Williams, merle haggard, johnny cash amoung others.

Oh snap, that is some fine shnizzle! My parents have tons of records, and a couple of years ago I bought my dad a hi-end player: I now it's stupid but I swear the tone on those things are better than CDs.

Oddly, it's probably not the tone you're hearing but the result of what's known as The Loudness Wars.

Basically, some bright shmuck in the 50s thought it'd be a good idea to make his record "hot" by adjusting some frequencies in the master thereby making it stand out more on a jukebox.

This practice went on but not crazy until the advent of the CD where compression became more feasible due to the limitation of vinyl media. Now highly compressed music is all you hear and because of that, vinyl and old stereos "sound better"--which is subjective to begin with.

Anyway, that shmuck in the 50s wasn't as much of a shmuck as the one(s) in the 90s who compressed CD beyond recognition.

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

Great news?

One of my cats, a Sphynx, has had a bad run of luck his whole life. Apparently he was the only surviving cat in his litter due to some illness. He has had a severe nasal problem for the almost two years that I've had him... and I was told by the breeder to expect him to live this way his whole life.

I've taken him to vets and specialists who don't know what is wrong with him. I've treated him like he's had Feline Herpes by giving him Lysine and that's helped with his symptoms.

I finally had a vet do a culture panel and the panel came back as some aggressive bugs that he's been fighting for the two years I've had him... unknowing twit that I am.

So, with an extreme dosage of antibiotics he should be able to kick this and be normal for the first time in his four year life.

I'm not happy with some of the details in this but ecstatic that it looks like this will "cure" his perceived permanent illness.

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

tarrbot wrote:

Great news?

One of my cats, a Sphynx, has had a bad run of luck his whole life. Apparently he was the only surviving cat in his litter due to some illness. He has had a severe nasal problem for the almost two years that I've had him... and I was told by the breeder to expect him to live this way his whole life.

I've taken him to vets and specialists who don't know what is wrong with him. I've treated him like he's had Feline Herpes by giving him Lysine and that's helped with his symptoms.

I finally had a vet do a culture panel and the panel came back as some aggressive bugs that he's been fighting for the two years I've had him... unknowing twit that I am.

So, with an extreme dosage of antibiotics he should be able to kick this and be normal for the first time in his four year life.

I'm not happy with some of the details in this but ecstatic that it looks like this will "cure" his perceived permanent illness.

i too wish your cat all the best and agree with swollen keep him away from deadhorse, you just don't know where he's been!

Re: The Happy and Good News Thread!

good news for me would be, I got some big news, via facebook a few nights ago,thought I would share it on here, this year at Festival Of Fear in Toronto which takes place with Fan Expo,they are both a big horror and comic con one of the best in the entire world for those of you who don't know about it, well this year my horror artwork is going to be showcased along with the Ottawa Horror group! i'm pretty stoked about the news, seeing the likes of Robert Englund(A Nightmare On Elm Street...Freddy!!!) is going to be there along with Elvira, Lance Henriksen,John Waters and Michael Rooker just to name a few!